My headlight went out in Tioga Pass last month. I used my bright to get to a station and began swapping the bulbs as they are the same, but in a different position.
While my hands are occupied inside the ferring, trying to unplug and plug in the bulb, some drunk 20 something year olds started in on me. Can you ride a wheelie? I tried ti ignore it as they sounded drunk and assanine. Come on man do a wheelie!
I replied "No thanks, im working on something here".
They kept on with, Come on Pussy do a wheelie! I kept working on the light and tried to ignore them. It was getting frustrating as they kept on saying. Ride a wheelie, ride a wheelie. It was 1 am on a Saturday in Oakdale, Ca. and cops where everywhere and I was about 800 miles into a long ride. I was tired and cranky.
The last thing I heard was, come on man my friend can do wheelies! If you ride a wheelie my girlfriend will suck your di##. I heard a girl calling him a jerk and they sped off.

I think thats the most common request I get. Someone at the side of the road motioning a wheelie or yelling it out. I really enjoy the community around motorcycles and like to talk to folks about pretty much anything when im out on my bike. However there are a few idiots out there who are simply idiots.

Just a point of information, I used to live in a small city. We had deer living in the 12' tall hedge which lined our yard. While the hedge was only, perhaps, 2 yds wide, they managed to hide themselves well in it. This was winter only. By spring they'd be gone. I could sometimes see them poke out of the hedge to feed but as soon as they'd spot me, they'd retreat back into the hedge disappearing.

How they managed to migrate through town to find appropriate hedges w/o being seen remains, to me at least, a great mystery.

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I had a deer run out in front of me on MLK and Pine in the middle of Seattle. I always thought that deer would be the last thing to worry about while riding in the city.

I had a deer run out in front of me on MLK and Pine in the middle of Seattle. I always thought that deer would be the last thing to worry about while riding in the city.

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Odd you should mention it, but Sunday AM we saw two huge buck deer grazing in a garden in the middle of the city of Durango, CO. The property owner shoos them away with a BB gun. She said they are an almost daily nuisance.

I think thats the most common request I get. Someone at the side of the road motioning a wheelie or yelling it out. I really enjoy the community around motorcycles and like to talk to folks about pretty much anything when im out on my bike. However there are a few idiots out there who are simply idiots.

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I get that a lot from cars going though town while sitting at a stop light. It's like where the fuck am I going to wheelie exactly? Into the back of the Honda Civic in front of me? Most of them have been grown adults asking me to (or miming the throttle hand moving). The kids just wave.

That's gotta be my favorite interaction on the road, when a bored looking kid spots you out the side window, or out the back at traffic lights and you give them a little wave. That excited wave back, and jumping around telling Mum and Dad "he waved at me! He waved at me!" Then slapping his brothers and sisters until there's five little faces squashed up against the window all waving and smiles... Brightens my day.

Him: Man I had a xrtzcbr12501500 and it's front tire was this big and the rear was like this! As he held his hands out about 2 1/2 feet apart.
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"...and you should'a seen the one that got AWAY!!"

That's gotta be my favorite interaction on the road, when a bored looking kid spots you out the side window, or out the back at traffic lights and you give them a little wave. That excited wave back, and jumping around telling Mum and Dad "he waved at me! He waved at me!" Then slapping his brothers and sisters until there's five little faces squashed up against the window all waving and smiles... Brightens my day.